On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:20, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > If you can ssh to a box as root you can do anything remotely that you > > could do locally short of a complete new install. Normal maintenance > > just requires a 'yum update' anyway. > > I doubt you'd want manually to do that with a few hundred boxes within > an organisation. I recall that there is a package for administering > systems, recommended for those who want to change the defaults > post-installation, but I cannot remember its name. I do it with dozens and it doesn't take enough time that hundreds would be a problem - but the remote ones are running Centos where I've never had an update kill the machine. I'm not so sure I'd 'ssh yum -y update' a remote fedora box without testing an exact duplicate first. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
